With everything that’s been happening lately, I’ve been trying to keep myself busy with art projects. I figured it’s what my aunt would have wanted and enjoyed seeing. She was always interested in seeing what I was capable of creating.
So with this recent project, let me start by saying this was supposed to go in a different direction.
My couch needs some fun stuff happening to it (a bigger project possibly involving patchwork is in the works). In the meantime I wanted simple and fun. I came across eye pillows that caught my eye 😉.
I wanted something closer to the yellow one but didn’t quite have large amounts of yellow fabric for this project. I found an orangey pink that I thought would be fine. Plus it had some fuzz to it so I thought a pillow with a nice feel would be comfortable.
I proceeded to cut large circles, and found colors for the iris. As I was working on these, my roommate walked in crushing my dreams by telling me “they look like boobs”…
Welp. I immediately felt defeat. Considering that the larger fabric was technically nude rather than “orangey pink” didn’t work in my favor, no matter how many excuses I tried to come up with to justify these being eyeballs.
With these developments, I decided to roll with it. I kept everything as is but took it once step further by making tassels out of leftover funky yarn…because I’m ridiculous like that.
I wanted a more 3D effect and fun piping, so I went to town. The pillows that we had on the couch were old and just needed to retire already. I took those apart, grabbed all the stuffing, and transferred the stuffing to the new pillows. I made the new pillows much bigger; luckily I had more stuffing at my disposal.
I’ll admit I’m kinda bummed they didn’t come out the way I had planned, but I can say it was a happy accident. Besides, it’s kinda fun when projects take a spontaneous twist, a good spontaneous twist, that is. No one likes when projects become a legit fail.
Can we also note how my couch in the gif looks like Chairy from Pee Wee’s Playhouse? This couch seriously needs a makeover…
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